The adolescent wing of the zenith Igbo socio-social association, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has told the Movement's initiative for the Sovereign's Actualisation State of Biafra, MASSOB, that withdrawing from Nigeria, as being disturbed by the gathering, would not be in light of a legitimate concern for the Igbo.
The National President of Ohanaeze Youth Council, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro expressed this on Saturday at a public interview in Umuahia, Abia State, to divulge plans during the current year's Igbo Youths Day slated for Monday in the state capital.
Forewarning MASSOB, he said: "It is better we stay in Nigeria and battle for our rights than withdraw. We have been sufficiently understanding and in 2019, it will be our swing to create a Nigerian President. It will take a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction to mend the injuries of Biafra."
He approached the Federal Government to genuinely discharge all individuals from MASSOB and other Biafran activists kept in different detainment facilities the nation over.
Isiguzoro additionally engaged the Federal Government to address what he depicted as shameful acts against Ndigbo in the nation, which he said were the significant explanation behind the tumult for self-standard by MASSOB and other genius Biafran bunches.
He further contended that it made no sense for individuals from MASSOB who are peaceful to keep on being held wrongfully for quite a long time in confinement, ''while the same government is occupied with discharging caught individuals from fierce gatherings like Boko Haram and Niger Delta aggressors who have gone to the mattresses in opposition to the state."
"Since the Federal Government is covertly arranging with Boko Haram terrorists, why wouldn't it be able to additionally arrange with MASSOB, which is peaceful? Since it is discharging some Boko Haram contenders, it ought to likewise consider MASSOB individuals kept illicitly in detainment facilities."
He likewise said the Igbo Youths Day would be utilized to sharpen governors in the South-East Igbo talking states on the pressing need to put resources into farming for youth strengthening.
